Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

I'd like to levitate.

Children blessings seem, but torments are.

Winners lose more often than losers lose.

Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.